Weather news

Set up the number and type of the layers that will construct your image to get grayscale image, RGB composed of 3 layers, or from combination of any other available layers.
In the current version of VANE Language, we use images from Landsat8 satellite. By default, we get B2, B3, B4, B5, B7, but it is possible to download any other bands. In the forthcoming version of the language, you can configure formulas like (b4-b3)/(b4+b3), NDVI(b4,b3) and many others.

The face of our planet is changing constantly. There are several reasons of this process, they are of natural and technogenic (i.e. a result of human activity) origin.
One of such processes that we can observe during the past decades is ice melting. And in particular, there is melting of big glaciers. This factor is a crucial one that impacts changing of the Earth’s surface the most. The matter is that this type of ice melting has the most influence on the level of the World Ocean, in comparison with melting of sea ice which is already in the water. Thus, observation of glacier melting has a great significance not only as a signal point in global warming, but also due to its impact on the level of a global ocean.

OpenWeatherMap is happy to announce good news for owners of private weather stations! We are launching a new version of Weather Stations API 3.0. Now there are more easy ways to manage your stations and transmit its data.
http://openweathermap.org/stations-30

We have just launched beta Jupyter notebooks on our VANE platform! Now you can test your data science algorithms on Landsat8 satellite imagery. Weather and IoT are coming soon!
http://owm.io/jupyter/start

In recent years, the problem of decreasing productivity of agriculture has arisen sharper due to climate change and long-term weather fluctuations; there is even the threat of famine in some countries, which are more dependable on crop productivity. This problem can be solved with traditional and known for centuries tools, i.e. by expansion of sowed land through deforestation.

Simultaneously, the intensification of manufacturing or the expansion of cultivated land into previously wild areas can lead to additional emission of greenhouse gases due to the removal of trees and also these processes can increase the amount of used fertilizers. These both actions are factors contributing to climate change and appearance of negative weather phenomena such as drought.